palewook writes: Wired has posted Daniel Kawakami's response to the whole Creative Labs driver debacle. Creative Labs made news four days ago when they posted a public cease and desist to dev Daniel K concerning his Vista driver mod. That post has since become the highest viewed thread on Creative's forum and sparked an outrage over Creative's admission of selective programming.

palewook writes: "Halo 2 and Shadowrun are being sold as Vista only programs. Recently, Razor 1911 released a patched Vista only program, that now works on Windows XP. Halo 2 and Shadowrun appear not to need the special function libraries of DirectX 10. Microsoft has claimed these programs could not be released for Windows XP because of the DirectX 10 function calls."

palewook writes: "The Bong Hits 4 Jesus kid lost 5-4 in the Supreme Court decision. Chief Justice Roberts summary, "A principal may, consistent with the First Amendment, restrict student speech at a school event, when that speech is reasonably viewed as promoting illegal drug use."
While Justice Breyer dissented and warned, "One concern is that, while the holding is theoretically limited to speech promoting the use of illegal drugs, it could in fact authorize further viewpoint-based restrictions.""

palewook writes: "The Open Source Consortium wrote to the Office of Fair Trading requesting that it reconsider the decision granting Microsoft a two year proprietary window for enveloping BBC's internet TV services.
How can Microsoft offer cash to open source agreements with one hand and crush it with the other hand, wait never mind."

palewook writes: "Internet radio providers Live365, AccuRadio, and KCRW have signed up to sign off for 1 day. Except for brief Public Service Annoucements, on June 26 only silence will be heard on these stations."

palewook writes: "This year's Global Entertainment and Media Outlook Report predicts within 3 years digital music distribution will surpass world-wide physical music distribution. In other words, by 2010, there will be more annual digital downloads purchased than compact discs sold."

palewook writes: "Four years after Saddam's government ended in Iraqi, the search for Weapon's of Mass Distraction appears over. The United States and Britain circulated a joint proposal within the United Nations Security Council to end the Iraq Arms Inspection Program."

palewook writes: "A torn heat-resistant blanket on the orbiting shuttle, now the space station's oxygen and water computers failed. Russian engineers have yet to confirm what caused the computers failure, engineers suspect the computers' failure could be linked to a power source. The space station has a 56 day supply of oxygen left."

palewook writes: "First, Frontline detailed AT&T's co-operation with the NSA's domestic data logging program in Spying On The Home Front. Now, AT&T has decided to work on implementing a deep data packet inspection program of their own. After all, the NSA already logs AT&T network data to keep you safe, why not deploy technology to keep you safe from pirated content on AT&T's network. AT&T claims they will not violate user privacy or FCC directives.
James W. Cicconi, an AT&T senior vice president, started working last week with the MPAA and the RIAA to develop anti-piracy technology. The old AT&T death star logo joke appears relevant again."